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SubjectRe: Subject: [PATCH V7 1/4] mm: frontswap: swap data structure changes
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:57:55 -0700
Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> wrote:

> From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
> Subject: [PATCH V7 1/4] mm: frontswap: swap data structure changes
>
> This first patch of four in the frontswap series makes available core
> swap data structures (swap_lock, swap_list and swap_info) that are
> needed by frontswap.c but we don't need to expose them to the dozens
> of files that include swap.h so we create a new swapfile.h just to
> extern-ify these.
>
> Also add frontswap-related elements to swap_info_struct. Frontswap_map
> points to vzalloc'ed one-bit-per-swap-page metadata that indicates
> whether the swap page is in frontswap or in the device and frontswap_pages
> counts how many pages are in frontswap.
>
> [v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3]
> [v7: JBeulich@novell.com: add new swap struct elements only if config'd]
> [v6: rebase to 3.0-rc1]
> [v5: no change from v4]
> [v4: rebase to 2.6.39]
> Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
> Cc: Rik Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Hmm....could you modify mm/swapfile.c and remove 'static' in the same patch ?




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